College of Education, English
Teaching is no doubt the most profoundly complex job ever devised.
It was one of the jobs that our prophet Mohammed PBUH practiced. At that time,
teaching was highly appreciated; consequently; teachers were respected. In
contrast, in our present days that isn't the case. Many teachers are living a
humiliating life because they are not being valued by their students.
A good teacher! How will a student define such a person? Unfortunately,
in the eyes of many students, a good teacher is the one who betrays his duty
and lets his students cheat in their assignments. As a result, they will get high
grades which will make him from some perspectives a good teacher. But is he? What
criterion made him a good teacher? No criterion has done so. And even if it had,
what power can guarantee for us a valid criterion?
Kent Jackson says that: “A good teacher never stops learning.ˮ
Indeed; a good teacher will act as a receiver and a giver of knowledge. Phil
Beadle goes beyond Jackson's words as he defined a good teacher as an
entertainer and an educator. For sure, humanity won't collapse if a teacher has
a sense of humor. In contrast, his light sense of humor will grab the attention
of the audience.
On the other hand, a teacher who gives his students much more homework
than is needed is creating a very stressful atmosphere for leaning. Education
is not a race, so it must move in steady steps. In fact, school is the time
where learners should have fun while being educated. In contrast, a good
teacher must make his students' interest his first priority and teaching his
religious duty. Only then will he know what it feels like to be a good teacher.
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